JonathanK

Castleview was Kathleen Moore, I think... We did a lot of work together with Kerkythea and Thea back when rendering was more difficult.

The reason I thought it signified manual newel posts is because on one trial run, when I switched it to manual...they changed to yellow. I think the CAD block for that newel post was generated by Chief. I can create a custom and see if it works better.

Did Cheryl die, or what?...or just retire?

The other strange thing is that all the walls on the left were drawn with right click method...so how come all four walls don't have the newels shown as yellow?

Hey @Renerabbitt. They dimension identically, but the the three railings on the left side are yellow. That signifies that you can manually adjust the newels. So if you click on the yellow box, and tab through, you can select it and move it. On the right side, that feature is not available. The interesting thing, is that if you open those railings, you can see that the newel spacing is set to Automatic. So then why are they showing up as yellow, if it's set to Automatic? It's probably not a huge deal...my workflow is that if I know I'm making multiple walls in succession, I use right click. If not, I use left click. So it's more of a little switch in my brain than any real issue.

Can anyone from CA confirm this, or am I making a big deal of something that's not a big deal?

And...maybe thinking on this a little further...if right click allows customization, how does that work for walls and other items?

Thanks, Joe. That's all good and well, but wondering why the top wall on the left doesn't have the "customization"? I always just assumed that right click was a continuous draw option, but apparently there is more to right click than I thought?...

I made a custom porch railing with a custom newel that is an 8x8 with the Simpson bracket and hardware. Anyways, I've noticed that when I draw the walls with this custom railing, and I use RIGHT click, it makes my newels "manual" spacing, even though it's all set to Automatic. When I draw the walls with this custom railing and I use LEFT click...it makes everything correct. Is this a bug, or is there a reason behind this? Railing Issue.zip Porch Railing.calibz

Another bummer, is when I want wood trim and "extension jamb", it makes my mull strip in the middle wood as well. That's pretty lame.

Am I missing something, or is there no way to call out extension jambs on windows? Also, I'm trying to build windows specific to how our manufacturer makes them (within reason of course), and the windows in general feel like they're missing a lot of adjustments that would make it model correctly. The biggest thing I notice is that we have adjustments for sash and frame, but if you look at how a casement window is actually built, there is overlap there that is not possible with how Chief models the window. Meaning on the exterior of a casement window you see more of the "sash" and less of the "frame". On the inside, it's the other way around. Is this a big deal?...no not really. But I want my cake and eat it too.

Does the hood have actual lighting assigned to it in some way? I would run the camera up under there and see if there's something with the actual symbol that has lighting associated with it.

I get that, but that's likely why it isn't working to build the attic truss. It's looking for a room w/ attic space on both sides and a flat ceiling. The pictures I posted above we're just a thing I whipped up quick with 3 stories. I think that's what you're looking for. You just make the "room" as big as you want the space for HVAC and call it good.

Would this be a "3-story" house? First floor would be your main floor; Second floor would be your little air gap you're showing; third floor would be the attic space. You would draw the walls, ceiling, etc.. on it as if it is another floor in Chief? We don't get heavy into showing framing and trusses, so not 100% it will work. But that's how I'd do it.

This is a major work around, and will not look good on your plan with line weights off, but looks fine printed and with line weights on: Open the note you want to change. Go to "Note" Change the size to something like "3". Or whatever small arbitrary number you'd like. Go to "Line Style" Change the line style to whatever color you want. Change the line weight to something that fills the circle. I'm sure the others have a thought on this...

This is the one we use for the ft-in: obj = owner obj = referenced unless referenced.nil? nf = NumberFormatter.new nf.unit = "'-\"" nf.use_fractions = true nf.apply(obj.room.ceiling_height)

Edit>Preferences>General>Project Management. Uncheck "Use Chief Architect Project Management".

Thanks, @Renerabbitt. Yeah, we're aware of those settings. I think we'll have to play with it and get things dialed in a little more.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. We're looking to bill per hour for our services. The thought was to use time tracker in Chief. But after messing around with it for a little bit, it just feels like it's missing options. I would like a custom toolbar or something that shows what my total time is on the entire project. Just something to quick reference. It also feels clunky with the amount of entries per day there are. It seems like there could be functionality there to merge times or something like that. Even the sorting date and things like that are clunky. I suppose it just comes down to like what @para-CAD brought out and just export it to Excel and do my cleanup work there. I was just curious what others have done/ are doing.

Can you use AI to generate a southern yellow pine flooring texture, and just create a new texture for your models?

More just curious than anything...is anyone using the Time Tracker native to Chief? If so, do you have any tips and tricks on it? It feels woefully inadequate, but it's nice having it run automatically in the background so that our multiple designers can work on a project and not have to worry about logging time to a specific project. How do you guys log time to a project?

Chief handles pole structures way better than it used to. There is less fudging and a little more automation. You could essentially build a wall type that would do what all you want, or you could build the posts individually with the footings, and your wall type could be just the wall girts and steel. Likewise with the concrete slab. You could just have CA make it's OOB slab, or if you wanted to show the level of detail you're talking about you could use solids with expansion foam and the whole nine. I wouldn't be afraid to tackle it, I guess. But I always enjoy a good challenge

You should be able to open an X4 file with X17. There's probably going to be some conversion glitches and stuff, but you should still be able to open and work on the plan.

In X17 dishwashers are placed as a standalone item, not in cabinets like they used to be. When you sandwich them between two cabinets, it automatically places a countertop over the top of the DW.

I would build my "ramp" out of a solid. Pull a cross section through there, make it 4" thick like it would be if it was concrete, and draw it at the proper slope. That should allow you to break it in those two areas and make them flat or sloped or whatever. Although, I'm not positive if that was available on X12 or not. But that shouldn't matter. Your flat spot is going to be at the same elevation as the floor in the foyer, so you can have it run through that area with no problems.